This issue of LISA e-journal will focus on the relationship betweenState and Culture in the English-speaking world. Culture is understoodin its wide anthropological sense including all forms of expression.All cultural forms are thus considered-the arts, institutions and themedia.At the end of the 20th century, Western states seem to revise theirmode of intervention into culture. As the Welfare State era draws toan end, the funding sources of culture need to be diversified. Generalpatterns of State intervention into culture identified by publicpolicy specialists in the 1980s and 1990s are no longer valid, for thesituations of the various geo-political areas can no longer be asneatly distinguished from one another as in the past. Where Stateintervention into culture was formerly practised in a direct,dirigiste way, the State now passes on this prerogative to arm'slength bodies. In the English-speaking world on the other hand, theopposite trend seems to be noticeable since the State intervenes in amore direct way than in the past, taking over from the arm's lengthbodies which were formerly the only cultural policy makers.It will be interesting to confront the ways in which the variouscountries in the English-speaking world have adapted to the currentevolutions concerning the governance of culture. The influence of thechanges taking place in Great-Britain onto the administration ofculture in its former colonies could be assessed. One couldconsequently wonder whether there still is a style of culturaladministration characteristic of the English-speaking world and, if itbe the case, what its characteristics are. Have public policy scholarsin the English-speaking world predicting the end of cultural policybeen proven right? Or on the other hand, have relationships betweenculture and politics never been so close?

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